Archive for December 8th, 2008

There is a point in our lives when we just stop talking or listening to someone who cannot seem to understand how the world actually works. I am by no means an expert in life experiences. Far from that in fact. But I can see and I can learn from those people who seem to do well in their lives.

In my 20 over years of life, when it comes to learning curve, I have thus far seen 3 kind of people. There are those who learn from other people’s mistake, there are people who just got to try things themselves and learn from their own mistakes and keep on improving themselves, and finally there are people who doesn’t learn from others, make mistakes and yet do not learn from these mistakes.

The type of person I am talking about is the one who is in the third category. How do you deal with these kind of people? Who keep on talking about how to do things, never listen to reasons, fail over and over yet never learn from it?

At a certain point, the only way to deal with such people is ignore. They may have an eternity to keep on finding the “thing” that they are looking for. People like me do not have that much time in life. Life is too short to listen to problems that these sort of people simply do not want to solve not because they cannot.

It does not necessarily mean letting them go, especially if they so happen to be a loved one. But there simply nothing more you can do or say to help somebody who does not even want to help themselves.